The Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (German: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg) was founded in 1991 as a publicly funded film school in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Filmakademie is one of the most internationally renowned film schools and known for its Institute for Animation and Visual Effects. In addition the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg hosts the Atelier Ludwigsburg/Paris, an inter-university master-class on film production with the notable French film school La Fémis in Paris and in cooperation with the National Film and Television School in London. The Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg also works to expose students to an international network of film-makers by organizing exchange programs with partner institutions worldwide. Every year, the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg organizes a workshop for selected students at the UCLA, including internships with production companies in Los Angeles.
Studies
The project-oriented curriculum triggers learning by doing all the different stages of a film and television production. More than 300 highly qualified experts from the film and media business instruct the students and take care of their projects. About 250 films of all genres and formats with top rankings on international festivals are produced every year by teams of students enrolled in scriptwriting, directing, cinematography, editing, animation, series, film production, film score, sound design and production design. The Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg only admits students who have at least one of year of practical experience in the film business and two years for its producers program.
International Guest Student Programme
The programme is aimed primarily at students attending foreign film schools and universities who wish to study at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg for a certain period of time (max. 6 months). The programme offers courses in directing, cinematography, producing, film music, working on a film or shooting of an own film. Preferably, the foreign film schools or universities should be members of CILECT, the international association of film and television schools.
Rankings
In 2003, the Art Directors Club awarded the Filmakademie the title of Germany’s most creative university.
In 2006, issue 22 of FOCUS, the Filmakademie was ranked as the best film school in Germany. Evaluation criteria were the reputation of the university, the support for the students, the technical equipment and the number of awards won.
The animation institute at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg was listed as second in the 3D World ranking in 2007, a global "Ivy League" table of the world‘s top animation schools.
In 2010 the prestigious magazine The Hollywood Reporter listed the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg as the only German institution on its ranking of the world's best film schools. In 2015, the Filmakademie was again listed as one of the "15 best film schools in the world".
Awards
The academy won a German government award for innovation in 2006.
Students from the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg have already been nominated for the Student Oscar several times for their productions. Film Academy productions have won numerous other prizes such as the Adolf Grimme Prize and the Golden Bear at the Berlinale etc. Recent proof of the Film Academy's philosophy of teaching are the Golden Leopard awarded to "Das Verlangen/The Longing" at the Locarno International Film Festival (2002), an Oscar nomination for "Das Rad" in the category "Best Animated Short Film" (2003), the Student Oscar at the Student Academy Awards for "Nimmermeer/Nevermore" in the category "Best Foreign Film" (2007).
References
External links
- http://www.filmakademie.de official website (in German)
- http://www.filmakademie.de/?L=1 official website (in English)
- http://www.animationsinstitut.de Institut of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction (in German)(in English)
